Meanwhile some European banks have indicated an intention to repay their LTRO
money. The pundits on CNBC were baffled. ...Obvious really.... What these banks
so desperately need is not limitless credit which they don't want to pass on
anyway (except of course to their own sovereigns, in so far as they are
pressured to do that) but real money invested in them from outside Europe. In
other words it's a ploy to lure in some Asian/American/South American cash. The
repayments are presumably being made from the profits they have generated from
gambling with the ECB credits on spreads/commodities etc. Just as we all knew
they would.http://www.scribd.com/arbitraj/
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The chief executive of market analysts RANsquawk :"The eurozone is being
skewered by stubbornly high inflation and rising unemployment. Even ignoring the
small matter of the debt crisis, the eurozone's fundamentals are once again
looking increasingly sketchy. While in Spain there is a growing danger of unrest
as popular frustration boils over at the new conservative government, even in
buoyant eurozone economies, inflation is eating away at purchasing power. Any
hope of consumers spending their way out of the dip has just faded further. In
many of the 17, the numbers are conspiring to make economic output stagnate or
contract. The increase in unemployment had been expected, and there was a sense
of grim inevitability about these numbers". Unemployment figures like any
stats are only as good as the accuracy of the source data. For instance, the
figure in the UK is apparently 2.8 million with 29.12 million in work. That is
out of an official 62 million population which is important because those not
retired or at school etc not included in the 62 million are in effect
unaccounted for. This is serious all over Europe because the population
according to the people who really know through footfall count and accurate
essential sales such as national food retailers like Sainsburys said that in
2007 (The Independent) they estimated the UK population at 78-80 million. Which
means that there are not 2.8 million unemployed in the UK today at all, there
could actually be in the region of 20 million technically. Whether unemployed or
unaccounted for its a deeply worrying thought when one thinks this could be
typical of what's happened all over Europe. What is alarming is that the
natural self-sustaining model of capitalism has been severely undermined by the
socialist ideology of make believe. And if all those unaccounted for people were
found and ejected from all European countries there would be no unemployment, no
housing shortages, no strain on infrastructure and so on. There would also be no
internal threat of cultural destruction from Islam, no African ghettos in our
cities, less crime, less strain on social services, more resources for
indigenous populations etc. And most importantly if people were given their
country's back again they might begin to believe in them, themselves and work
and fight for their own futures. Isn't it a shame that the EU Technocrats can't
'fix' unemployment figures like that have the debt crisis, and for every Euro
they print and create on a computer they repatriate an ill-suited / illegal
immigrant. But our leaders know best I suppose, they know what they are doing.
17 million unemployed - yes a direct result of the EUSSR policies that kill off
any competitive edge we could have, whilst at the same time paying the EU elite
massive amounts and pensions the rest of us could not even dream off.
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On 29 March, EU finance ministers claimed to have come up with the right numbers with which to shield the eurozone from a new crisis. But it is a sleight-of-hand accounting that could crumble at the first sign of trouble.
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The Euro is a disaster for Europe, just as eurosceptics predicted it would be.
Break it up as soon as possible in the best orderly fashion, whilst protecting the interests of the people first and foremost. The longer the euro stays around, the worse it will be for europe, and no amount of throwing more money down the bottomless pit to save what is obviously a failed currency is going to help it in the long run.
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